Other violent crimes have decreased in the city during the first eight months of 2013 compared to 2012. The number of rapes decreased slightly from 18 to 17 in the period, while robberies were down from 84 to 81 in the first eight months of 2013 and aggravated assaults were down by 22 percent from 168 over the same period last year to 131 this year, according to the report.

The entire August BridgeStat report for the city can be found online here.